History

Eastgate is a village in Weardale, County Durham, located about two and a half miles west of Stanhope. The village is situated by the confluence of Rookhope Burn with the River Wear. The name of the village relates to when it once marked the eastern entrance to the private hunting park of the Prince Bishops of Durham (the village of Westgate marking the westerly entrance to the park

Eastgate, a village in Stanhope Quarter, was formed into an ecclesiastical parish in 1885, and is pleasantly situated, 3 miles west from Stanhope, on the north bank of the Wear. The church of All Saints, formerly a chapel of ease to St. Thomas', Stanhope, was erected in 1888, chiefly at the cost of the late J.R.W. Hildyard esq. of Horsley Hall, and is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and a belfry with spire, containing 2 bells: The register dates from the year 1885